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Patients' files sold off to drugs firms
Profiteering privateers to get hands on NHS data
NHS patient records will be flogged off to profiteering private-sector insurance and drug companies when a giant database is set up later this year, campaigners warned yesterday.
English medical records will be fed into the new
care.data database controlled by arm's-length body the Health and Social Care Information Centre from March.
Patients will be able to opt-out of having their information shared.
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